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Review: Enthralling recital leaves audience breathless

Review: Enthralling recital leaves audience breathless

Virtuosic flourishes executed throughout a programme of complex works kept a capacity Hanover Hall audience enthralled during Friday’s recital by pianist Abhinath Berry.

Review: Globe takes energetic approach to ‘Shrew’

Review: Globe takes energetic approach to ‘Shrew’

The Globe Theatre’s bonkers take on one of Shakespeare’s more difficult plays keeps the energy high and brings the comedy to the fore, making its production of The Taming of the Shrew an...

Review: Show draws ‘amazing crowd’

Review: Show draws ‘amazing crowd’

The colours of Africa worn by City Choir Dunedin members set the mood for Zimbe!, Saturday’s vibrant presentation of music from the continent.

Arts fellows field questions

About 100 people gathered in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery on Saturday to fire questions at the 2025 University of Otago Arts Fellows.

Impressive and vibrant experience

Impressive and vibrant experience

City Choir DunedinZimbe!Knox Church, Saturday, July 12

Truly outstanding recital

Abhinath Berry, Hanover Hall, Friday July 11.

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Photo in exhibition a source of pride

Callum Flett lines up another exhibition-quality photograph after one of his images was selected...

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Photo in exhibition a source of pride

Living with cerebral palsy and profound deafness means Callum Flett does not have the luxury of easy communication.

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Bulldog mural to replace kissing kids

A design for a proposed mural depicting a British bulldog on the Mansfield Apartments building,...

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Bulldog mural to replace kissing kids

A British bulldog will replace a pair of lovestruck children as the new face of a central Dunedin building.

Detailed approach

An intricate sand mandala has been created by Tibetan monks at the Dunedin Community Gallery.

Images that say more

A selection of late photographer Marti Friedlander’s rural South Island photographs which have never been seen in the South are on exhibit at Starkwhite in Queenstown.

In full bloom

Mural artist Koryu Aoshima with his new artwork on the side of South Dunedin's Aurora Health Centre.

Inspiration home-grown for award-winning artist

Rod Eales shows off her award-winning work at the Dunedin Railway Station on Saturday. Her work...

Inspiration home-grown for award-winning artist

Flowers from her garden provided the inspiration for Otago Arts Society winner Rod Eales.

Obituary: John Simpson, artist

John Simpson, after his investiture as ONZM, for services to art education, by the governor...

Obituary: John Simpson, artist

Fine arts academic and silversmith Harold John Simpson was the first professor of fine arts at the University of Canterbury, and headed its School of Fine Arts from 1961-90.

Variety of artworks amazes

The judges for the Otago Arts Society’s annual exhibition awards say this year has made them look a lot closer at things.

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Body of work

Vincent Ward is an award-winning, internationally recognised New Zealand film-maker, but he is also a practising artist who is showing his "Palimpsest/Landscapes" work in the South Island for...

Halves make a whole

A simple semicircle encompasses some big ideas, Anya Samarasinghe writes.

Obituary: Fred Graham, artist

Respected artist Fred Graham remained relevant right up until the end: a major new sculpture, Te Manu Rangimaarie, was unveiled at Taupiri just before his death.

The whare that travelled the globe

Mataatua Wharenui today in Whakatane. PHOTO: NGATI AWA

The whare that travelled the globe

The little-known story of the Mataatua Whare will be brought to life by the music of Dame Gillian Whitehead, the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra and soloists Tomairangi Henare, Paul Whelan and Rebecca Ryan this weekend.

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